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Jennifer Jacquet is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. As a kid, she read 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and would come to discover that while those 50 things were indeed simple, saving the Earth was not.
July 30-August 1, 2010: Attending Sci Foo Camp hosted by Nature, O'Reilly and Google at the Googleplex, Mountain View, CA.
June 19, 2010: Presenting at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting at the University of Oregon in Eugene.May 2010: Counting fish: A typology for fisheries catch data published in The Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences.
May 3-7, 2010: Workshop: Incorporating Appropriate Ecological Baselines into Management of Ocean Resources at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
April 24, 2010: Q&A following a screening of The End of the Line at the Food Film Festival in Portland, Oregon.
March 12, 2010: Presenting at the World Affairs Conference of Northern California in San Francisco.February 21, 2010: Co-organizing and presenting on the panel Preserving the Global Commons Through Conservation and Cooperation at the AAAS meeting in San Diego.
January-March 2010: Visiting lecturer at the Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD. Co-teaching Topics in Marine Conservation with Jeremy Jackson.
November 2009: Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts published online at Oryx
August 14, 2009: Dan Ax at Avukado Productions makes the following short video for Guilty Planet:
July 30, 2009: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation Fish as Food in an Age of Globalization at the University of British Columbia.
June 2009: Published at Conservation Biology: What Can Conservationists Learn from Investor Behavior?
May 27, 2009: Talk titled "Historical Renaming and Mislabeling of Fish" given the Oceans Past II conference in Vancouver, B.C.
May 24, 2009: Talk at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2009: Dave Beck and I showcase our jellyfish burger in Scientific American's photo gallery:
March 24, 2009: Talk at the Student Conference for Conservation Science at Cambridge University, UK.
March 14, 2009: Talk at the Kettle's Yard Problemathon for Cambridge's Science Festival.
March 3, 2009: Talk titled "Guilt v. Shame in Market Based Efforts to Save Our Fish" at the Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany.
February 27, 2009: Talk at Fauna & Flora International.
January-March 2009: Visiting researcher with Bill Sutherland's lab in the Conservation Science Group at the University of Cambridge.
November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
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August 31, 2009
Meat production is hard on the environment and slaughterhouses are hard on our sensibilities. Imagine if we could grow meat in a laboratory, outside an animal, and fashion it into a nicely shaped cow ready for carving -- all with...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 8:30 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food Systems
Are you an eco-douchebag? Take this simple test.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 2:27 AM • 95 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2009
Category: Seafood
At Tokyo's fish market, fish are smaller, farmed, and less tasty.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Shifting Baselines
Salmon in Salmon River: who knew?
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:30 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2009
Category: Consumed
Companies should make their eco-friendly products distinguishable from their conventional ones.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:27 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
A friend wanted me to see this public service announcement, which is an excellent visual display of quantitative information and a good way to provoke guilt: When he sent me the link, he routed me through this awesome blog called...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:53 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2009
Category: Oceans
There might not be focus on ocean conservation, but there should be.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 15, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
It's an New York Times oldie but goodie and I think one of the best graphics I've seen: savings versus debt of the average American household through the decades. I'd love to see one of these for fish catches in...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:36 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 14, 2009
Category: Stylized Substance
Check out this fun and impromptu little Guilty Planet spot made by a friend of mine and founder of Avukado film and photography....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:49 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 11, 2009
Category: Solutions
After almost a century, Atlantic salmon are back in France's Seine River.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 3:37 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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